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Kimbal Quist Bumstead is an interdisciplinary artist based in London whose work sits between painting, drawing, video and performance. Kimbal’s work is cathartic, explosive and colourful. He creates paintings using translucent layers of varnish, oil paint and ink to create visceral body-like abstract forms.
He holds an MA in Performance and Theatre from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland.
At the age of 24 Sophie was spotted by the Royal Watercolour Society and invited to become an associate member.
She also won her first large painting award "the Hunting Group Young Person's Award" for her large canvass, this time in oil.
Since completing her postgraduate diploma at the Royal Academy of Art in 1989, Sophie has had numerous exhibitions
in London and touring shows in Spain, the USA and Canada.
In 1999 she received a prestigious commission to paint six watercolours which are now housed permanently in the House of Lords.
She was pleased to recently discover she also has a painting hung in the Prime Minister's chamber.
Sophie also worked on location inside the Palace of Westminster producing two large watercolours of its interior, now hung in the new parliamentary building.
She has been collected by numerous private collectors and has work in the British Museum (The Royal Watercolour Society Archives),
the TSB Bank (The City), and several corporate collections, including Pilkingtons and Freshfields Solicitors.
B.A ( Hons) Fine Art - Camberwell School of Art
R. A (Dip) The Royal Academy Schools
Member of The Royal Watercolour Society
Michael Corkrey
September 2023
Michael Corkrey
Since completing his Post-Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools in 1989, London-based painter Michael Corkrey has exhibited widely with sold work in numerous private and corporate collections across the UK, Europe, the Americas and beyond. Initially a painter from life of nudes and portraits, he was a regular exhibitor in the Portrait Awards at the NPG leading to numerous portrait commissions.
He received an Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Award in 1990 and won Most Popular Painting Award and then First Prize in the Hunting/Observer Art Prizes exhibitions in 1993 and 1994 respectively.
In 2001 he began creating the large seascapes that have largely dominated his work since and in 2012 and 2013 was privileged to work for two spells at the historic Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, Cornwall under their Artists Residency Programme.
Nicola Gregory
Born in South Wales, Nicola studied illustration at Swansea College of Art followed by a post-graduate at St. Martins School of Art.
From her studio in London, Nicola has worked as a freelance illustrator and surface designer for over 30 years.
Her watercolours have been featured in packaging and greetings cards, in Country Living and Gardener's World magazines and in Waterstones bookshop.
Jack haslam
Born in London in 1990 Jack trained in printmaking at City Lit. His love for animals is a major influence in his life and a driving force for his work.
In 2019, Jack won the President's Prize from the Royal Society of Watercolour Painters, followed by Featured Artists Prize from the Royal Society of British Artists and the Publicity Award from the Royal Watercolour Society at Bankside.
Julie's canvases have always been deeply rooted in the abstract. She works intuitively, fully absorbed in the physicality of the paint. Spaces, forms and textures appear and disappear as layers are added and the surface is reworked until an inviting sense of the familiar evolves, something both universal and intensely personal, that unlocks the viewer's memories, emotions and imagination.
A new collection of large paintings based on walks up on Mount Caburn above Glyndebourne.
I feel a strong connection to the Downs and the earthy chalk tracks where my family have farmed for three generations.
I grew up and continue to live next to Caburn, walking its paths most days. Through my Chalklines collection I have tried to suggest this relationship to the Downs, but also a sense of openness and freedom where the skylarks sing.
The paintings evolved from walks, drawing expeditions and an exploratory way of working that allows me to unearth them. Every painting is a new adventure, to be tracked down.
I never know what they will look like until they emerge from the canvas. Some of the paintings have been on the go for a couple of years.
Susie graduated from St Martins School of Art in London with a Fine Art degree and then continued at Brighton Art School to complete an MA in Fine Art and a PGCE.
Helen Ireland and Andrew Carter
New Prints and Paintings
January 2023
Andrew Carter studied Fine Art at Central St Martins School of Art and has an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art. UAL. He lives and works in East Dulwich.
He has taught Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at James Allen's Girls' School for the last 25 years whilst developing his own work as a painter and printmaker.
His work is held in many private and public collections.
Instagram: andrewcarteramc
Helen Ireland studied Fine Art Painting at Central St Martins School of Art and has an MA in Fine Art Painting at Chelsea School of Art.
She was the Drawing Fellow at Winchester School of Art. Helen has taken part in many International Artists workshop in Namibia, Georgia and The Netherlands.
Collections include British Land, FORTE, Arthur Andersen, UNESCO, New Hall Cambridge University and British Airways.
Instagram: helenirelandart
Over the past year Phil Tyler has been working on a new series of paintings inspired by early morning or late evening light. In Cinema, this is described as the Golden Time, when the sun is low in the sky and everything is bathed in a warm glow.
Travelling in the summer to Normandy, the daily dog walk around the lake yielded so many moments of visual joy as the trees caught the light but also cast dark shadows. This juxtaposition of warm and cool, light and dark as well as the broken light filtering through the trees inspired him to make numerous drawings, watercolours, colour studies and then take those ideas through into larger oils.
These visual qualities can also be seen in the paintings of flowers which continue this interest in abstract mark making in response to organic forms.
1990 MA Printmaking, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
1986 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Loughborough College of Art and design, Loughborough, United Kingdom
1985 studied on the BFA Fine Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States
Created in a spirit of daydreaming and distraction Lucy du Sautoy paints views through windows, which she uses to capture and contemplate the in-between spaces of our everyday lives.
The window pane itself, marked by changes in the light and weather becomes the picture surface. The subject allows her to explore the mechanics of painting, attending to colour, abstraction and detail, while at the same time registering human experience.
The act of looking out offers some mental escape and space to think, to daydream, reflect and to remember. A window is made opaque by the reflection of light on condensation, a doodled smiley face offers a hopeful human presence.
Having previously had a career in marketing, in 2015 Lucy graduated from the Art Academy in London, with a First Class diploma in Fine Art. During the summer of that year, her painting "Daydreaming" was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Lucy was named Artists and Illustrators Magazine 'Artist of the Year, 2019'. Her painting, Daydreaming IX was shown in this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Lucy regularly exhibits in group and solo shows in London and around the UK. She is frequently commissioned and her work is held in private and corporate collections across the UK, and in Europe and the US.
Dulwich and surrounding
Sophy is based in London but in her twenties spent a lot of time painting in the Cape, South Africa. It is there that light became a huge influence in her work.
Sophy loves how light throws the outline of every scene into sharp relief and she has a particular interest in sun shining through trees and refection of light on water.
Sophy completed a foundation course at Westminster University and then went on to a BA(hons) in fine art at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design.
Elizabeth Abel
My name is Elizabeth Abel and I am an artist based in London. After finishing my A levels I began studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2019.
I have now graduated. I paint mainly using oil paints and watercolour. My work is centred around the human figure and nature.
Philip Maltman
Philip Maltman is a Scottish-born artist who now lives and works from London. He works primarily with oil paint and crayon on paper, board and canvas, exploring landscape and natural objects often related to literary influences from James Joyce to Don van Vliet and frequently with references to the works of earlier artists such as Claude and Constable.
Ruth Stage has been working as a professional painter for almost 30 years and has had 23 solo exhibitions. After studying at the Royal Academy schools Ruth embarked on a career as a landscape painter concentrating on water, beaches, parks. The Grande Vista!
Ruth has won many prestigious prizes including an exhibitor's prize at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and in 2013 the prestigious Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. In 2018 she was also a finalist in the Threadneedle Prize.
She was elected into the New English art club in 1998 and exhibits each year in their annual exhibition in the Mall Galleries.
Her work is very individual and is easily recognisable by her fans. Many warm to the subtlety of the colour and the delicacy of mark. Ruth achieves this partly with her finely refined technique which she has developed using the medium of egg tempera.
Egg tempera has been used since mediaeval times and is made using the yolk of an egg as a binder with powdered coloured pigment (in oil paint for manufacture, for example, the binder would be linseed oil).
Ruth makes a handmade gesso ground on which to paint using warm glue and chalk dust.
Critic Julian Halsby writes
Ruth's Paintings 'Have an almost Whistlerian quality in that every area is equally beautifully painted, the application of the paint and the service itself being part of exquisite whole. It is not surprising that dealers and collectors have become keen to acquire work, for these are really exceptional pictures.'
New Work
In my new work colour is given texture by the palette knife. Pure, malleable oil paint is reworked intuitively
but in a slow, meditative process from which the pieces evolve as much sculptural objects as paintings.
While the new pieces continue to allow contemplation of both personal memories and something more universally
familiar they now bring a sharper sense of time, place and recent experience.
Education
1989 Chelsea School of Art, BA Fine Art
1987 Camberwell School of Art, Foundation Course
Some Flowers
Philip Maltman
Philip Maltman is a Scottish-born artist who now lives and works from London. He works primarily with oil paint and crayon on paper, board and canvas, exploring landscape and natural objects often related to literary influences from James Joyce to Don van Vliet and frequently with references to the works of earlier artists such as Claude and Constable.
Philip examines the form and lines of this often chaotic subject matter, and in doing so creates a new kind of landscape painting that focuses on transitions and the constant flux of everyday life. These are not typical nature paintings in that they convey a sense of chaos and unrest, using erratic brushstrokes, paint drips and text to achieve this unsettling yet exciting effect.
Drawn from Life
A solo exhibition of drawings and paintings drawn directly from life.
Drawing in London Anna Dickerson perches on walls, the river banks of the Thames or sitting up close to the glass windows on the 6th floor of the Tate Modern. Her London drawings have a colourful energy, working against the clock as the tide comes in or the light changes.
Now weekly visits to the Rare Breeds centre in Kent have marked the beginning of a series of owl drawings. The long-eared owl Gertrude is very vocal and screeches and Rolo the immense Eurasian owl jumps between perch and ground as the falconer takes him out to fly. They are beautiful to draw and very intense with their staring eyes.
Anna's oil pastel drawings of garden birds began during the first lockdown. The birds drop by the feeders, circuit and come back again. In this way Anna's builds up the character and stance of each bird, never knowing how long she has before the bird leaves.
Included in Drawn from Life are still life garlic paintings, in contrast to the oil pastels these are very delicate, made of many fine layers of acrylic and created over a sustained period of weeks rather than in one sitting.
Anna Dickerson's 'The Thinker, Toad Dynasty' was exhibited in the 2021 Royal Academy Summer/ winter exhibition, selected by Humphrey Ocean (RA)
Biography
Anna studied Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art and also at Rhode Island School of Design, America, specialising in Painting. She was artist in residence at the London Zoo for 18 months and has been filmed drawing for the Tate Gallery. Anna lives and works in Kent, where she draws from life as well as continuing to come to London to draw her cityscapes based around the Thames. Anna has work in private collections worldwide and exhibits her work widely. Her work is also in the UN collection in Rome.
Anna Dickerson
Fine Artist
1990 MA Printmaking, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
1986 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Loughborough College of Art and design, Loughborough, United Kingdom
1985 studied on the BFA Fine Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States
In mid-March 2020, during the last week of face to face teaching (leading up to the first full lockdown), I was running a life drawing session at the University of Brighton. Many students had opted to leave early, to get back home before everything shut down. For the few that remained one of my last sessions was working from a male model in a large performance studio. During my teaching a white balloon floated around the space, sometimes near the ceiling, sometimes hovering just about the floor. It seemed to have its own consciousness, acting like a portent of things to come.
Whilst shielding, the garden offered my only respite as I battled with teaching everyday online and the feeling of confinement within the domestic space. Small bouquets of flowers became beautiful moments of colour becoming incandescent as the early morning light streamed across the living room and illuminated them.
When I was finally able to leave the house I felt a real need to get out of house and go for long walks with the dog. I found new vantage points in Sussex that did not disappoint.
These small little pleasures were a way of escaping the uncertainty of fear of the unknown. These three sets of motifs have been have explored since January 2021.
I was initially felt drawn to the sense of unease and the uncanny that the balloon presented. This would soon shift to one of exhalation and joy as both flowers and landscape offered new moments of joy.
Sandra Millar studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Goldsmiths College London.
She taught Art for many years in London, before becoming a full time painter and printmaker.
Her paintings and prints evolve imaginatively from sketchbook observations, the focus being people, and relationships. Using strong colours in the paintings and contrast of tone in the prints. They celebrate life, showing the world as theatre, with its dangers, tensions and pleasures. Through the process of painting drawing or printmaking the subjects very much dictate their own identities.
At the age of 24 Sophie was spotted by the Royal Watercolour Society and invited to become an associate member.
She also won her first large painting award "the Hunting Group Young Person's Award" for her large canvass, this time in oil.
Since completing her postgraduate diploma at the Royal Academy of Art in 1989, Sophie has had numerous exhibitions
in London and touring shows in Spain, the USA and Canada.
In 1999 she received a prestigious commission to paint six watercolours which are now housed permanently in the House of Lords.
She was pleased to recently discover she also has a painting hung in the Prime Minister's chamber.
Sophie also worked on location inside the Palace of Westminster producing two large watercolours of its interior, now hung in the new parliamentary building.
She has been collected by numerous private collectors and has work in the British Museum (The Royal Watercolour Society Archives),
the TSB Bank (The City), and several corporate collections, including Pilkingtons and Freshfields Solicitors.
B.A ( Hons) Fine Art - Camberwell School of Art
R. A (Dip) The Royal Academy Schools
Member of The Royal Watercolour Society
Chris Kendrick and Elizabeth Abel
http://www.chriskendrick.co.uk
http://www.elizabethabel.co.uk/
Audust 2021
Chris Kendrick
Chris works almost exclusively in oils on canvas panel and has been concentrating on still life and is inspired by the work of Dutch and Spanish artists of the 17th century.
He is fascinated with the way light reacts with objects, reflects in them and absorbed by them. Chris cites Dutch 'Stilleven' painters of the 17th century and so-called 'Pronk' style of artists who often set their compositions against dark backgrounds and employed quite a rich palette.
Chris studied in Norwich and completed a BA Honours degree course in fine art which included a period at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Elizabeth Abel
My name is Elizabeth Abel and I am an artist based in London. After finishing my A levels I began studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2019.
I am currently in my second year. I paint mainly using oil paints and watercolour. My work is centred around the human figure and nature.
Susie grew up in rural Sussex, where she continues to live and work.
She graduated from St Martins School of Art in London with a Fine Art degree and then continued at
Brighton Art School to complete an MA in Fine Art and a PGCE.
She works from the Landscape preferring to work outside with the elements mainly in acrylics and mixed media texture
My work evolves from speedy, intuitive drawings made on canoe expeditions around the Sussex coast and rivers, walks on the Downs and Hebridean cycling adventures.
The drawings are a response to my experience of a place and are the starting point for paintings that I then develop back at the studio.
I try to paint outside whenever possible as the energy of the paint and the painting processes take over, allowing the painting to evolve.
I never really know what my paintings will look like until they reveal themselves.
Helen Ireland and Andrew Carter
New Prints and Paintings
7th May - 24th June 2020
Helen Ireland explores geometric arrangements of colour using gouache and watercolour. These subtle works are engaging as they are ambiguously flat and spatial. The use of the grid anchors the image arrangement to the surface whilst her controlled use of colour saturation and tone convey a sense of light and space. These works are structurally strong whilst being delicate and fragile.
Andrew Carter has made three new large scale linocut relief prints specifically for this show. He continues to explore the chance arrangement of organic shapes and pattern found in his day to day observations and glimpses of the natural world. 'London Rain', seen whilst sheltering from a rain storm in central London, 'Great Palm House', a pattern of architecture and palms seen in Kew Gardens and 'Ravensbourne', the most recent print started with a willow tree growing on the bank of the River Ravensbourne in Ladywell Fields. His two newly editioned 'Sea Glass' screen prints are re makes of glass collections found in Cornwall in 2008. All of this work is seen, drawn, cut as a relief print or stencil and then printed by hand.
Helen and Andrew met at Central St Martins in the 1980s whilst studying fine art. They have lived and worked in East Dulwich for the last twenty years.
Dulwich and surrounding
Sophy is based in London but in her twenties spent a lot of time painting in the Cape, South Africa. It is there that light became a huge influence in her work.
Sophy loves how light throws the outline of every scene into sharp relief and she has a particular interest in sun shining through trees and refection of light on water.
Sophy completed a foundation course at Westminster University and then went on to a BA(hons) in fine art at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design.
Urban meets Rural
Solo exhibition of drawings and paintings where urban meets rural, and somewhere in between.
Biography
Anna Dickerson grew up in Rome, later going to Bedales School in Hampshire where her passion for painting flourished.
Anna went on to study Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art and also at Rhode Island School of Design, America, specialising in Painting.
Anna was artist in residence at the London Zoo for 18 months and has been filmed drawing for the Tate Gallery.
Anna had an Acme studio in London for 15 years before moving to Kent where she continues to paint.
Anna has work in private collections worldwide and exhibits her work widely. Her work is also in the UN collection in Rome.
I like to paint directly from the landscape. I work very physically, often in awkward locations.
This experience and the struggle to record the ever-changing light, colour and weather of my subject all becomes an integral part of its final appearance.
I find the medium of watercolour painting an exciting experience. Working quickly, I drench the paper with water and pigment keeping the composition constantly on the move, pushing the paint around until I am happy with the final image.
I aim to retain those first moments of visual excitement I feel when truly looking.
The recent work in this show has been developed from two painting trips , one to the Isle of Skye and one to Cornwall.
Sophie Knight graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in 1989.
Sophie was elected a full member of The Royal Watercolour Society in 2003.
Claire worked as a lawyer for some years, and raised a large family, but has always drawn and painted throughout.
She brings to her work a strong foundation in drawing, particularly life drawing. Recently she has had more time to learn and explore different media,
including pastels, inks and watercolour, but this exhibition concentrates on painted works, mostly oils and acrylics.
Claire has exhibited twice, in 2018 and 2019, at the Mall Galleries, once being a prize winner for Outstanding Work.
Chris works almost exclusively in oils on canvas panel and has been concentrating on still life and is inspired by the work of Dutch and Spanish artists of the 17th century.
He is fascinated with the way light reacts with objects, reflects in them and absorbed by them. Chris cites Dutch 'Stilleven' painters of the 17th century and so-called 'Pronk' style of artists who often set their compositions against dark backgrounds and employed quite a rich palette.
Chris studied in Norwich and completed a BA Honours degree course in fine art which included a period at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Susie grew up in rural Sussex, where she continues to live and work.
She graduated from St Martins School of Art in London with a Fine Art degree and then continued at
Brighton Art School to complete an MA in Fine Art and a PGCE. She works from the Landscape preferring to work
outside with the elements mainly in acrylics and mixed media texture
My work evolves from speedy, intuitive drawings made on canoe expeditions around the Sussex coast and rivers, walks on the Downs
and Hebridean cycling adventures. The drawings are a response to my experience of a place and are the starting point for
paintings that I then develop back at the studio. I try to paint outside whenever possible as the energy of the
paint and the painting processes take over, allowing the painting to evolve. I never really know what my paintings will
look like until they reveal themselves.
New Work
In my new work colour is given texture by the palette knife. Pure, malleable oil paint is reworked intuitively
but in a slow, meditative process from which the pieces evolve as much sculptural objects as paintings.
While the new pieces continue to allow contemplation of both personal memories and something more universally
familiar they now bring a sharper sense of time, place and recent experience.
Education
1989 Chelsea School of Art, BA Fine Art
1987 Camberwell School of Art, Foundation Course
Dulwich and surrounding
Sophy is based in London but in her twenties spent a lot of time painting in the Cape, South Africa. It is there that light became a huge influence in her work.
Sophy loves how light throws the outline of every scene into sharp relief and she has a particular interest in sun shining through trees and refection of light on water.
Sophy completed a foundation course at Westminster University and then went on to a BA(hons) in fine art at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design.
Wildlife
original portraits of animals
Jill Meager is showing her latest collection of animals and birds based on her recent travels in the Faroes, the Farne Islands, Scotland, and the Western Isles.
Raised in rural Scotland, she has a deep connection to the natural world and works primarily in response to wildlife - its resilience, its design and now increasingly its vulnerability.
She studied at Cambridge University and Putney School of Art & Design. She has been a finalist in The National Open Art Competition, short-listed for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and her work is held in collections worldwide.
Helen Ireland and Andrew Carter
17th September - 3rd November 2019
Splash Colour Grid
Recent paintings and prints by Helen Ireland and Andrew Carter
In her gouache paintings Helen Ireland continues to explore the relationship of colour and geometry to build up densely worked abstract compositions that balance an 'all over' sense of order and space. Andrew Carter's recent series of linocut prints play with the arrangement of accidental splashes of colour that have been carefully remade as linocut prints. Both artists have collaborated on two limited edition prints that combine their interests in observation, selection and abstraction.
Helen Ireland and Andrew Carter met at Central St Martins in the 1980s where they studied Fine Art Painting. Helen went on to complete her MA at Chelsea School of Art and was Drawing Fellow at Winchester School of Art. Andrew completed an MA in Fine Art Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art in 2011 and has since made this the focus of his practice. Both artists have exhibited widely and take part in the annual Dulwich Artists Open House. They live and work in East Dulwich where they have two children; Francis and Alice. Andrew has taught Art at James Allen's Girls' School for many years.
Alex Morton is a British artist currently living in Winchester having relocated from Cornwall, England.
Taking inspiration from the rugged Cornish coastline Alex finds the sea and the energy it brings though wind and waves both compelling and relaxing.
He aims to replicate the powerful feelings he experiences when standing at the edge of the ocean with a seemingly never-ending expanse of space before him.
As a keen surfer, he paints seascapes as someone who both recognises the beauty of the sea and comprehends its might.
Although Jane Newbery Gallery has sold Alex's artwork in the past this is his first exhibition with the gallery.
Liz Charsley has always enjoyed the act of drawing on paper, working in a range of media - oil pastel, charcoal, ink, watercolour. The influence of a youth spent on the beaches and forests of Vancouver Island is apparent in Liz's continued fascination and appreciation of wild areas, wherever they may be. Fields, forests, riversides, and verges feature in her work, which is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, Canada and the US.
Liz is currently Artist in Residence at Hugh Myddleton and Winton primary schools, and teaches drawing at Dulwich Picture Gallery, where she was Artist in Residence 2011-2012. She has also taught at the V&A, Copper Beech Cafe, and Bell House, as well as running 2 private art classes for adults at her home.
This is Liz's second solo exhibition at Jane Newbery Gallery.
Sophie Knight graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in 1989 and has exhibited widely in London. Her work is housed in numerous private and public collections including The House of Lords, the Prime minister’s private chamber and The British Museum.
Sophie was elected a full member of The Royal Watercolour Society in 2003. She has run numerous watercolour workshops. In 2016 she was invited to run a two day painting course in Buckingham Palace gardens as part of the Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations.
Lucy du Sautoy's paintings are created from a spirit of daydreaming and distraction. Her subjects often engage the generic and commonplace, and capture the in-between spaces of our everyday lives. Pictorial spaces become encountered scenarios - images that can be absorbed into, and overlaid with, the viewer's own experience. Her aim is to take the viewer to a place with which they feel familiar - to create a personal space for misty reminiscences and mused futures - to conjure a daydream. Lucy regularly exhibits in group and solo shows. She is frequently commissioned and her work is held in private and corporate collections across the UK, and in Europe and the US.
Lucy graduated in 2015, with a first class Diploma in Fine Art from the Art Academy, London. She works and lives in London with her husband and four children.
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Anna Dickerson graduated from Glasgow School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design in 1995.
This is Anna Dickerson’s third solo exhibition at the Jane Newbery Gallery. Anna’s paintings and drawings have an enduring presence, distilling a passage of time into images at once bold and delicate.
Harriet Porter paints the light. Her still life paintings and monotypes of reflective objects radiate a quiet serenity. The combination of minimal composition and limited palette allow her to concentrate on the subtleties of light and shade; focus and blur resulting in a sense of peaceful solitude.
She is based in South London and is represented by galleries in Dulwich Village, Stratford on Avon and Brighton. Her work has been sold widely in the UK, as well as in Europe and America.
Colour and simplicity are at the heart of Michelle Cobbin’s practice. Influenced by 20 years of yoga and meditation experience, and drawing upon her study of Visual Culture, she deliberately locates her work in the pared down abstract genre.
The paintings develop out of layers and repetition as she explores the relationship between scale and colour, the contrasts between quietness and intensity, and the shifting borderlines between vigour and serenity.
One of her favourite quotes that highlights the link between the practice of mindful awareness and how one approaches a work of art is from John Berger: “We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present to us as we are” (Ways of Seeing).
Michelle Cobbin is based in Brighton. She studied Visual Culture and Fine Art at the University of Brighton.
Kimbal Quist Bumstead is an interdisciplinary artist based in London whose work sits between painting, drawing, video and performance. Kimbal’s work is cathartic, explosive and colourful. He creates paintings using translucent layers of varnish, oil paint and ink to create visceral body-like abstract forms.
He holds an MA in Performance and Theatre from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland.
Andrew Carter & Helen Ireland
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS AND PAINTINGS
8th May - 15th June
Andrew and Helen met at Central St Martins in the 1980s where they both studied fine art painting. They now live in East Dulwich with their two children.
In this body of work called The Gossips characters have been taken from various historical paintings; prints; and photographs of people playing blind man’s buff. The characters are all behaving fairly innocently but just like gossip, they have been taken out of context so that they look as if they are doing something else. The resulting scenes are more salacious and gossipy than their original beginnings.
I extend my experience of the world by making art. This invariably results in chaos, sometimes in an acceptable order, which can be called a painting, and is about mark making, drawn, painted, scratched, gouged, flooded, scrubbed, stuck, dried or dusted.
David Taylor
CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPES
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14th December 2017 - 31st January 2018
Taylor studied architecture and design at the London Design School.
His career led him to travel extensively, visiting many countries and diverse landsacpes across the world.
This experience had a powerful effect on him and initally inspired him to begin painting.
With a degree in Art History, Lucy has more recently received a Fine Art Diploma at The Art Academy, London.
‘My intention is for my paintings to trigger a daydream in the viewer. I paint subjects engaging the familiar and commonplace - to create a sense of recognition and that can allow the viewer to overlay the painting with their own mental imagery.’
Sophie Knight graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in 1989 and has exhibited widely in London. Her work is housed in numerous private and public collections including The House of Lords, the Prime minister’s private chamber and The British Museum.
Sophie was elected a full member of The Royal Watercolour Society in 2003. She has run numerous watercolour workshops. In 2016 she was invited to run a two day painting course in Buckingham Palace gardens as part of the Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations.
In her sparse still life paintings of solitary silver vessels, artist Harriet Porter strips away distractions to capture the glinting light as it falls on her subject and the surrounding surface.
Strong emphasis is given to simple elegant composition and the subtle gradations of colour temperature. With these limitations imposed, she concentrates her aim towards the play of light and shadow; focus and line, obsessively balancing these elements within the frame. Porter studied at Central Saint Martins. She paints from life in her peaceful studio in Brixton. Her work reflects this tranquil sanctuary and escape from frenetic city life: The solitary object basking in uncluttered space.
Anna Dickerson and Sandra Fernandez
NATURAL SELECTION: BIRDS AND FLORA
1st May - 31st May
Natural Selection: an Exhibition of Bird and Botanical paintings. Anna’s Garden Birds are distilled into bold layered acrylic paintings. Sandra’s detailed floral watercolours show the intensity of nature’s intrinsic beauty. This is their first joint exhibition.
In her beautifully crafted paintings Sophy explores the visually dramatic effects of certain temporal and atmospheric conditions on otherwise everyday scenes. As ever, light is of predominant interest to Sophy in her work, she continues to favour strong direct sunlight as it throws the outline of every object into sharp relief.
Andrew Carter & Helen Ireland
WALKING THE THAMES BACKWARDS
23rd January - 27th February
Andrew and Helen met at Central St Martins in the 1980s where they both studied fine art painting. They now live in East Dulwich with their two children.
Helen Ballardie’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited in Museums and galleries throughout the UK and Europe. She was Artist in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, and her work is in several collections worldwide.
Helen Ballardie lives and works in London.
Lindis Richards qualified with a BA in fine art from Leeds University in 1971. She has successfully developed her water-colour painting style with a particular interest in “plein air” painting to capture the freshness and “surprise” elements of a scene newly discovered or seen at different times and in varied conditions.
Taylor studied architecture and design at the London Design School.
His career led him to travel extensively, visiting many countries and diverse landsacpes accross the world.
This experience had a powerful effect on him and initally inspired him to begin painting.
Lucy Bainbridge works mainly with screen print; her works are quiet reflections of the brief and changing images that we pass everyday.
Arabella qualified in 2002 with an M.A. in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
This is her second show at Jane Newbery after the great success of the last one in 2014.
She lives and works in London.
Kirstin Handley’s delicate mixed media paintings speak from the heart, inspired by her love of the English countryside and encouraged by music. She exhibits regularly in and around London, and has sold her work worldwide.
Lucy studied fine art drawing and painting at Glasgow school of Art 1994-1998. She has exhibited regularly, and was accepted and hung at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012.
Working from sketches drawn on location, Lucy builds compositions using shapes, lines and colour.
Edori Fertig
Greg Becker
NARRATIVE SPACES
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11 February 2016 - 15 March 2016
Greg Becker studied illustration at the Royal College of Art before working extensively as a freelance illustrator for many leading publishing houses. He now works mainly as an artist, producing intimate and atmospheric paintings inspired by his local environment.
Edori Fertig is a local artist and maker who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Her theme for the Narrative Spaces exhibition, features redrawn found photographs collaged into complex layered drawings and paintings of her Dulwich garden and studio.
Lydia Gardner
Michelle House
PAINTINGS, TEXTILE WORKS AND PRINTS
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11 December 2015 - 31 January 2016
Lydia is a painter whose current collection of abstract works evoke the colours and atmosphere she has captured on her travels in Spain. The Jane Newbery collection features unseen work, following an artist career of 15 years.
Michelle is an established printed textile artist and designer, who works from her studio in South London. Her unique abstract style is easily recognisable, with darting black lines that wind and weave their way across the surface of colour-drenched fabrics.
Jodie Glen-Martin graduated with honours from De Montfort University in conservation and restoration in 1995.
Working from her West London studio, Jodie focuses on familiar objects, capturing elements of their two dimensional form and experimenting with scale and repetition to create energetic discordant patterns.
With a degree in Art History, Lucy has more recently received a Fine Art Diploma at The Art Academy, London. She exhibited this year in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
‘My intention is for my paintings to trigger a daydream in the viewer. I paint subjects engaging the familiar and commonplace - to create a sense of recognition and that can allow the viewer to overlay the painting with their own mental imagery.’
Half Moon Printmakers is a purpose built printmaking studio, situated in an old bakery in West Dulwich, South London where a wide range of fine art prints are produced.
This exhibition features prints from Karen Keogh, Sonia Rollo and Susie Perring.
Victoria graduated from Reading University in 2008 with a 1st class degree in fine art.
Her work is predominantly inspired by a passion for children's literature and the paintings aim to reveal only a glimpse of a story, letting the viewer imagine their own wider narrative.
I extend my experience of the world by making art. This invariably results in chaos, sometimes in an acceptable order, which can be called a painting, and is about mark making, drawn, painted, scratched, gouged, flooded, scrubbed, stuck, dried or dusted.
Max has photographed some of south London’s most beautiful and interesting parks, gardens and nature reserves and exploring their changing characters through the seasons.
His work has appeared in Homes and Gardens magazine and at the Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition at the National Theatre and the International Garden Photographer of the Year awards.
Since gaining a First Class Honours Degree in 1991, Helen has exhibited throughout the UK and abroad.
Last year she exhibited in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and also received 1st Prize in The Dulwich Picture Gallery Open Exhibition.
Paul Benjamins is London born and trained at Camberwell School of Art and The Royal College of Art.
He has exhibited widely in solo and group shows throughout England, France and further afield.
Lesley O’Mara is a graduate of Central St Martins and has exhibited at various London galleries including Bankside and The Mall.
Frances Beck was born in Ayrshire and trained at Glasgow School of Art. She moved to London where she formed a partnership with Ernest Blyth as designer goldsmiths, exhibiting widely and twice winning the prestigious De Beers Diamonds International Award.
After Ernest’s untimely death Frances returned to painting and learned the art of printmaking under the tutelage of the late Dorothea Wight.
Anna Dickerson graduated from Glasgow School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design in 1995.
‘Garden Residents’ is Anna Dickerson’s second solo exhibition at the Jane Newbery Gallery. Anna’s incisive Bird paintings and drawings have an enduring presence, distilling a passage of time into images at once bold and delicate.
Torie Wilkinson qualified with a BA from The Ruskin School in Oxford.
She has exhibited extensively in London and this is her fourth show at Jane Newbery.
Arabella qualified in 2002 with an M.A. in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
She lives and works in London.
Greg Becker's new paintings are mostly inspired by his daily walks around the Dulwich area were he has lived and worked as a professional artist and illustrator for many years.
The exhibition features scenes from Dulwich and Peckham Rye parks as well as memories of visits to Wales and the south coast, possibly triggered by the sight of Local seagulls.
Also showing are still life paintings of winter flowers & autumn fruits.
Local artist, Grace Aza-Selinger, has created a series of portraits with a focus on Dulwich residents. The idea behind the project is to capture the diverse range of people living here and the unique factors which give Dulwich its village mentality.
Since graduating from University College Falmouth with a diploma in Fine Art, Grace has had four solo shows in central London as well as collaborated on seven group shows. She is currently working from her studio in Bermondsey, South London.
Teresa McGrath and Joss Taylor
THE GENERATION GAP
23 January 2014 - 7 March 2014
This mother and son show deals with the influence of each other’s work and the overlapping of ideas through the use of photography and painting.
Teresa studied at Sheffield College of Art, Manchester College of Art and the Royal College of Art.
Joss studied at Kensington and Chelsea College of Art and is in his final year at Kingston College of Art.
Julie’s paintings originate in both the experienced and the wished-for, passing thoughts and passing dreams. Through colour, tone and shape they hope to distil fragments of individual, personal memories and emotions to allow momentary contemplation of something more universally familiar, more felt than learned.
Born in Canada, Liz studied Fine Art and Theatre at the University of Victoria before moving to London to pursue a career as a theatrical propmaker. Liz worked on west end shows for 20 years before deciding to re-engage with her art practice, completing an MA in Drawing at Camberwell in 2008. Liz has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in London, and has work in private collections in the UK and Canada.
The work in VERGES explores Liz's interest in landscape, from a ground level perspective.
I make commissioned portraits, still lifes, and more abstract pieces, using a variety of materials.
If there is any kind of philosophy behind what I do, it is the appeal of the idea that something as formal and prescribed as a portrait or a still life can be rendered with random pieces of printed paper.
Joel Cable has exhibited in the United States and London. His work has been commissioned by many private and commercial clients including Liberty of London and has featured in various US and UK publications such as Stylist magazine and The Sunday Times.
Joel is a West Dulwich local and works from his studio in Deptford.
Born in London in 1985, Mary trained at Wimbledon College of Art, Kensington & Chelsea College and gained a 1st Class Degree at Edinburgh College of Art.
These works are associated with place and space and are fuelled by the artist’s preoccupation with maps, science and astronomy. Research by the artist into early cartography and recent lunar landscape imagery shows the scope of sources used.
Anna Dickerson graduated from Glasgow School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design in 1995.
Following her residency at London Zoo she embarked upon a new series of Wildfowl, working in acrylic and oil paint.
Wild Residents shows some of these bold paintings.
Taylor studied architecture and design at the London Design School.
His career led him to travel extensively, visiting many countries and diverse landsacpes accross the world.
This experience had a powerful effect on him and initally inspired him to begin painting.
Frances Lee
TREES ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS
13th September - 28th October 2012
This time my work is largely focussed around two sites, the Heygate in Elephant and Castle and the Folkestone Harbour train station (Folkestone being my home town).
Both sites are unused at present and waiting for something to happen.
I paint in acrylic, oil and watercolour, my work dividing roughly into three kinds: a representational but personal view of landscape, zinc plate etchings which depict figures in rural landscape and more recently linocut prints with more of a London flavour!
The continuing focus of Daisy's work is an exploration of half-grasped dreamworlds, to create mysterious and compelling images, rich in suggestion.
An atmosphere at once serene and unsettling is conjured here, a melancholic place inhabited by fragile and enigmatic figures, human and animal.
I am a painter working in mixed media. My paintings are organised into collections, which each follow a thread of exploration.
I often return to a thread as other ideas or thoughts emerge, so each collection continues to grow.
Sheila Anderson Hardy
NEW DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS
4 November 2011 - 29 November 2011
A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, I have lived and worked in South East London for over 25 years.
My output includes textile designs, botanical and general illustration for a variety of publications.
I now concentrate on drawings and paintings inspired by my domestic surroundings and the rich diversity of the natural and built environment.
My paintings are influenced by light and colour and I am particularly interested in the work of the 1950’s abstract expressionists.
A starting point might be a photograph or view but the visual equivalent is influenced by memory, recording fragments and glimpses of the world in the language of paint.
Torie's recent work focuses on the urban landscape and London in particular, looking to capture how we live in and relate to the seemingly impersonal city.
Recent shows include The Threadneedle Prize, 2009. “Rival to the Turner Prize … full of constant surprises.” BBC Radio 4, Front Row.
This exhibition captures a moment of flux, giving a vivid insight into the dynamic processes used by Bella Easton as she moves between larger artistic projects.
Concrete Moss consists of studies and drawings in which Easton pulls apart, reconsiders and reforms previous pieces, in her journey towards new work.
Terry Ryan
CHANGING PERSPECTIVE
19 April 2010 - 30 May 2010
Terry Ryan's diverse practice encompasses installation, painting, drawing, collage, stained-glass and sculpture.
Currently he is using maps from his 1,066-strong collection of admiralty charts to make individual works, while at the same time working on a major 106-map floor installation of the coastline of Australia.
I have always had a strong affinity with animals, especially horses.
The horse has always been a striking force of nature for me.
My most recent work tries to capture various aspects of this animal. In this work I am attempting to use the sparse poetry of design and purity of colour.
Taylor studied architecture and design at the London Design School.
His career led him to travel extensively, visiting many countries and diverse landsacpes accross the world.
This experience had a powerful effect on him and initally inspired him to begin painting.
Having trained as a textile designer I have developed a method of working which enables me to work in a free spontaneous way.
Using a blank silk screen and painting through the mesh I print the first level of a picture.
This is always too flat so I will then build up the imagery by overprinting, drawing into, scraping away or simply painting over.
Developed from a sense of loss and yearning, much of Laura’s work explores how our sentiments towards the countryside, are shaped by our art and culture.
For this reason, her research looks at the traditions of landscape painting. Laura is interested in the genre’s lowly status, out-datedness and sometimes dismissal.
Caroline Jane Harris explores dynamic patterns embodied in all things living and man-made, ciphers formed through geometric shapes and organic growth.
Formations in trees, bronchi of a lung, river networks, lightning and neural activity all demonstrate fractal characteristics (shapes which recur over many scales of magnification).
Torie Wilkinson
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY TORIE WILKINSON
11th June 2010 - 30th July 2010
Torie's recent work focuses on the urban landscape and London in particular, looking to capture how we live in and relate to the seemingly impersonal city.
Recent shows include The Threadneedle Prize, 2009. “Rival to the Turner Prize … full of constant surprises.” BBC Radio 4, Front Row.
Born in London in 1985, Mary trained at Wimbledon College of Art, Kensington & Chelsea College and gained a 1st Class Degree at Edinburgh College of Art.
She was recently awarded the Royal Scottish Academy’s Kinross Scholarship to study in Florence. Mary currently splits her time between London and Edinburgh.
